History Literature / ToBeOrNotToBeThatIsTheAdventure

* OneLiner: Everywhere, constantly. Sometimes paths diverge depending on which one-liner your character chooses to use (and then converge again later, but still). On one path, you, the reader, are given a blank line on which to write your own one-liner.

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Naturally. Occasionally parodied, for example when Hamlet jumps out of a fifth story window, miraculously survives, and then trips over a body part and breaks his neck. The narration says that you could complain about the out of nowhere neck-breaking death, but jumping out the window in the first place was so stupid that you sorta can't.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are portrayed much more favorably as awesome friends to Hamlet, and the narrator frequently sings their praises in the PARTY BOAT!!! branch. (You can guess North is a fan of TomStoppard). In fact, when Hamlet discovers the letter recommending his death to the King of England, Ros and Guil are as surprised as he is. The covert letter-swap still happens, but rather than designating his friends for death, Hamlet advises the King of England to set them up lavishly instead. Ros and Guil stay as Hamlet's allies from then on.

* {{Railroading}}: The narrator likes to punish you for insisting on the stupid and/or sexist choices by forcing you along a particular path. These tend to happen along the "canon" path.

* ScrewYourself: In one ending Hamelt goes back in time to kill Claudius with his past self. The epilogue states that they ended up making out a little and it was weird.
* ShoutOut: To ''SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' here:
-->“Dude, are you scoping this letter’s CHOICE ASSASSINATION ORDERS?” asks Rosencrantz.
-->“I told you, man! [[MemeticMutation I TOLD YOU ABOUT CLAUDIUS]],” Guildenstern yells.
** Also Hamlet's attempt to give Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a friendly slap on the back ends up dropping a reference to "flipping it turn-ways," and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death in the [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption "Kill Every Character In Hamlet"]] route involves not only them being thrown down the stairs repeatedly, but also Ophelia quipping "that is going to keep happening." Generally, any time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up, you can expect a SBAHJ reference.

* DatingSim: If you choose to take a vacation as Ophelia, the adventure instead turns into one of these as Ophelia gets to choose from between three guys to find True Love. And then terrorists attack instead.

** Also Hamlet's attempt to give Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a friendly slap on the back ends up dropping a reference to "flipping it turn-ways," and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death in the [[ViolenceIsTheBestSolution "Kill Every Character In Hamlet"]] route involves not only them being thrown down the stairs repeatedly, but also Ophelia quipping "that is going to keep happening." Generally, any time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up, you can expect a SBAHJ reference.

** Also Hamlet's attempt to give Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a friendly slap on the back ends up dropping a reference to "flipping it turn-ways," and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death in the [[MurderIsTheBestSolution "Kill Every Character In Hamlet"]] route involves not only them being thrown down the stairs repeatedly, but also Ophelia quipping "that is going to keep happening." Generally, any time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up, you can expect a SBAHJ reference.

** Also Hamlet's attempt to give Rosencrantz and Guildenstern a friendly slap on the back ends up dropping a reference to "flipping it turn-ways," and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's death in the "Kill Every Character In Hamlet" route involves not only them being thrown down the stairs repeatedly, but also involves Ophelia quipping "that is going to keep happening." Generally, any time Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up, you can expect a SBAHJ reference.

''To Be or Not To Be: That is the Adventure'' is a ChooseYourOwnAdventure-style adaptation of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', written by [[Webcomic/DinosaurComics Ryan North]]. Using the conceit that it is, in fact, the original story of Hamlet, from which Shakespeare lifted a single path and later turned that path into a play, the book allows readers to choose between multiple viewpoint characters and a number of plot tangents of varying levels of realism.

!!This work contains examples of:

* ValuesDissonance: In-universe. The narrator occasionally speculates that "future generations" might view certain choices as more socially acceptable than others. Sometimes it explicitly describes choices Hamlet can make as sexist - every one of which Shakespeare chose on his path.

To Be or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure is a ChooseYourOwnAdventure written by Ryan North.